Carnage at the Petting Zoo: Poems

It's raw. It's unapologetic by nature. It is nature.
Author, Mike Vlastnick, is not here to tip toe around the topic of human turmoil, or fit into societal boxes (cages, if you will).
This collection of poetry is not a light read, but it is an honest read.
It explores the topics of sexuality, mental health, existential crisis, and much more.

Vlastnick writes what many of us are afraid to say, leaving us, the readers, uncaged and wildly untamed.

I am trapped by the past

Shackled to it

I want so badly to be free

But lack the conviction

To chew through my own leg